Global Scans · Design · Weekly Summary

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WHAT'S NEXT?: Design thinking will increasingly play a key role in improving systems and customer experiences. Companies will re-learn their approach to innovation and embrace human-centred design principles. Designers will begin to apply knowledge of human interaction, specifically in the area of how we earn trust and respect, to AI systems.

• [New] Bitcoin, currently valued at $2.1 trillion, offers far greater upside, particularly as new infrastructure expands its utility beyond simple storage of value, creating opportunities that projects like Bitcoin Hyper are designed to capture. The Cryptonomist
• [New] Designing PA-NG will be more challenging than with the previous aircraft carrier and is seen by many as a culmination of France's technological and manufacturing prowess. SlashGear
• [New] Many fashion companies aim to design all their textile products to better fit the circular economy by 2040. Statista
• [New] JetBlue is renovating JFK's Terminal 5 which will feature over 40 new concessions, local art, and immersive greenery, set to be fully complete by the end of 2026. New York City Tourism + Conventions
• [New] A single UK eID could create a universally usable and recognized proof of identity for UK residents - useful also for other processes, including opening bank and utility accounts and applying for government benefits. Forrester
• [New] The UK government plans to mandate an electronic digital identity scheme and credential to all legal residents and employees of the UK to prove immigration and employment eligibility status. Forrester
• [New] By co-designing chips optimized for their specific workloads think massive language models trained on petabytes of data OpenAI hopes to cut costs and accelerate iterations. Future
• [New] 24 million Americans will be victims of identity theft in 2025, as scams become increasingly sophisticated using old and new methods powered by technology like artificial intelligence and social engineering, which trick victims into sharing personal information. sdwia.com
• [New] Datto Backup for Microsoft Entra ID is a new purpose-built backup and recovery solution that protects one of the most critical threat vectors - identity data - and ensures rapid restoration after accidental deletions, misconfigurations or attacks. Enterprise Times
• [New] A China-aligned threat actor codenamed UTA0388 has been attributed to a series of spear-phishing campaigns targeting North America, Asia, and Europe that are designed to deliver a Go-based implant known as GOVERSHELL. Medium
• [New] The Starship upper stage was targeted to splash down in the Indian Ocean following a dynamic banking maneuver designed to mimic the path a ship will take on future flights returning to Starbase. WWSB
• [New] The U.K., Italy and Japan would nevertheless need to rapidly field a CCA design for their GCAP concept, the first demonstrator of which is planned to fly by 2027. The Aviationist
• [New] In addition to the Bollinger-led team, Canada's Davie Shipyards will contribute to the ASC program by building a separate class of vessels on their fourth-generation Multi-Purpose Polar Support Ship design. gCaptain
• [New] The future of fashion will not be defined by new materials, but by new mindsets, where every fiber and decision treats the planet as a partner in design rather than a resource to be used and accumulate waste. Forbes
• [New] Europe's eIDAS 2.0 regulation mandates the creation of a European Digital Identity Wallet, while the rollout of mobile Driver's Licenses is accelerating in the U.S., with 29 states expected to have active programs by the end of 2025. figshare
• [New] Broadcom just announced a $10 billion partnership with OpenAI to design what industry sources are currently calling the Titan XPU, which is a custom processing unit optimized to power inference workloads for chat GPT, GPT-5, and OpenAI's future models, with mass production starting in 2026. Ticker Symbol: YOU
• [New] In the near-term (2025-2028), we can expect to see AI-driven tools revolutionize chip design and verification, compressing development cycles from months to days. FinancialContent
• [New] The integration of AI-driven Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, such as Synopsys's integration of Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service into its EDA suite, will further streamline chip design, reducing development cycles from months to weeks. FinancialContent
• [New] MIT chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be used for applications such as generating clearer images of tumours. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• [New] In 2027, NASA plans to launch the much larger Multi-slit Solar Explorer to capture high-resolution measurements of the Sun's corona using a state-of-the-art instrumentation. Space Daily
• [New] The Knox seeks to redefine luxury living in Dallas through a blend of sleek design, individualized service, and warm community environment that will attract discerning residents as well as U.S. travelers. Travel And Tour World
• [New] Resilience engineering, fail-safe design, and privacy-preserving architectures will be central to ensuring always-on connectivity for billions of devices and users worldwide. ANI News

Last updated: 20 October 2025